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Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900–1960 de Alan John Ainsworth

Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900–1960

Autor Alan John Ainsworth Cuvânt înainte de Darius Brubeck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 aug 2024
A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. 

In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers the work of a range of American jazz photographers from the turn of the twentieth century through the Jazz Age and into the 1960s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ainsworth examines jazz as a visual subject, explores its attraction to different types of photographers, and analyzes why and how they approached the subject in the ways they did.

While some of the photographers are widely recognized today, the volume also explores lesser-known figures of the period—including African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early-twentieth-century emigres, and Jewish exiles of the 1930s—whose contributions are often overlooked. Informed by ideas from contemporary photographic theory and with a foreword by Darius Brubeck, Sight Readings is a wide-ranging, eye-opening new look at twentieth-century jazz photography and the people behind it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781835950562
ISBN-10: 1835950566
Pagini: 472
Ilustrații: 136 photographs
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.97 kg
Editura: Intellect Ltd
Colecția Intellect Ltd

Notă biografică

Alan John Ainsworth is a scholar who specializes in architectural and music photography. He lives and works in Edinburgh. 

Cuprins

Contents
Foreword by Darius Brubeck 
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching jazz photography
Chapter 1: Jazz photography and photographers 1900-1960
Chapter 2: Jazz writing and the photographic image
Chapter 3: The Jazz image as document
Chapter 4: Expression in the jazz image
Chapter 5: The Play of Gestures: Jazz in the Studio
Chapter 6: Document and realism: early African American jazz photography
Chapter 7: Expressive realism in African American photography
Chapter 8: Authenticity and art: ‘New generation’ white photography
Chapter 9: Interrogating jazz: exiles and Jewish photography
Chapter 10: Looking forward, looking back: Jazz photography after 1960
Conclusion: Herb Snitzer, Pops (1960)
Appendix: Photographic agency and jazz photography
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Here we have a thinking man's guide to early jazz photography that will appeal to fans of the art and science of photography, fans of history and fans of the photos and photographers who take the shots. It only makes sense when looking at author Alan John Ainsworth's resume. . . . It makes for insightful reading and viewing."

"The most fascinating chapter explores early African American photographers, and here the book is invaluable—collating information about key figures, including Arthur Bedou, James Van Der Zee, Edward Elcha and Carroll T. Maynard. No previous study has shed such light on this vital and important era. . . . A timely, thorough and absorbing addition to the study of jazz iconography."

"This fascinating and beautifully produced book addresses a neglected issue in jazz studies: the nature of the images which have plentifully illustrated writing on the medium. Alan John Ainsworth considers the work of American jazz photographers through the first sixty years of the twentieth century. . . . [Ainsworth] has insightful discussion of neglected areas including studio publicity portraiture, the canonisation of white photographers that has largely been accepted in the jazz literature, and work done for the segregated press. . . . Sight Readings is a groundbreaking contribution to its subject."

"The book's originality lies in its ambition and range. There is nothing else in the market that covers the range of issues discussed in this book, draws on such a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly written material, or provides so much information about so many photographers. The persuasive power of this work rests on its careful documentation and determined naming of photographers."

"Like an expansive jazz solo, Sight Readings both digs deep and flies high, remapping the history and redefining the conceptualization of jazz photography as a subgenre. Ainsworth uncovers studio publicity portraiture, vernacular photography, and work done for the segregated black press, among other new directions, while illuminating the faded jazz image of the early twentieth century."

"Sight Readings is an instant classic, a work of breathtakingly thorough research and seasoned erudition that shows how African American, Jewish émigré, and other photographers created a vast archive of jazz imagery that both reflected and shaped the emergence of American multiracial modernity. Himself a superb photographer and learned historian of the form, Ainsworth’s concern is how photographers have gone about framing jazz as a space of aesthetic, cultural, and political meaning. Sight Readings teaches us how photographers approached their jazz subjects with a view to their expressive potential and social importance, and how jazz writers, listeners, and musicians themselves can better grasp the richness and complexity of jazz history through visual evidence. An exemplary model of multi-sensorial music criticism, this excellent book enables us to see, hear, feel, and think about jazz much more deeply."

"The definitive book on jazz photography. I admire its theoretical sophistication as well as its exhaustive account of the many artists who devoted themselves to creating a photographic record of jazz."